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Living with the Dead (Hardcover)
Darrell Schweitzer; Introduction by Tim Lebbon; Illustrated by Jason Van Hollander
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R614
Discovery Miles 6 140
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A self-standing companion to Darrell Schweitzer's British Fantasy
Award-nominated The Mask of the Sorcerer, the present volume
collects all the Sekenre stories, which proved very popular when
originally published in Weird Tales, Interzone, Adventures in Sword
& Sorcery, and elsewhere.
The weather went from being beautiful to tempestuous: torrential
thunderstorms plagued the Shelleys, Byron and Polidori. The weather
-- along with the company and the eerie ambiance of the locale --
contributed to the genesis of _Frankenstein, _ Polidori's "The
Vampyre," and, in all likelihood, modern weird fiction. On the
night of June 16th, the group read aloud a collection of German
ghost stories, _The Fantasmagoriana._ This inspired Byron to
challenge the group to write a ghost story. Shelley wrote an
forgettable story; Byron wrote a story fragment; and Polidori began
the "The Vampyre," the first modern vampire tale. (Jacketless
library hardcover.)
From the Manuscript discovered in 1877 by Messrs. Tonnison and
Berreggnog, in the Ruins that lie to the South of the Village of
Kraighten, in the West of Ireland -- a place known in certain
arcane circles to be the Borderland between Earth and Faerie. A
classic novel of horror by the acclaimed master of the macabre,
William Hope Hodgson. (This jacketless hardcover edition is
intended for the library trade.)
A definitive look at the life and work of horror writer H.P.
Lovecraft, by a leading scholar of the fantasy and horror field.
Sherlock Holmes was Arthur Conan Doyle's miracle. Like many
miracles, it came of its own accord and rather overwhelmed its
recipient. There may have been times when St. Paul, after his
experience on the road to Damascus, really wished he could go back
to his old life, but he couldn't, and he knew it. Conan Doyle, too,
reluctantly came to the same conclusion, though only after a
desperate struggle. He felt that the Holmes stories were taking
time and public attention away from his more serious work. So, with
great deliberation he killed off his detective in the 24th story in
the series, the ominously entitled "The Final Problem," sending
both Holmes and his arch-nemesis created for the occasion, the
"Napoleon of Crime," Dr. Moriarty, over the Reichenbach Falls in
Switzerland. That, Doyle sincerely hoped, would be the end of that.
But miracles do not stay dead, of course, even if, during the
period in which Holmes was officially deceased, the
fantasy-humorist John Kendrick Bangs, with permission, depicted the
posthumous doings of Sherlock Holmes's shade on the River Styx in
The Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897). In his unsuccessful attempt
to kill off Holmes, Doyle came very close to creating a second
immortal character, in the person of Moriarty, who has certainly
had a substantial later career in the hands of other writers. "The
Final Problem" appeared in 1893. For all Conan Doyle might have
wished otherwise, the world had not seen the last of Sherlock
Holmes. Collected here in this giant oversized volume are nine
Sherlock Homes books including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the
Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock
Holmes, The Valley of Fear, A Double Barreled Detective Story by
Mark Twain, and The Pursuit of the House-Boat by John Kendrick
Bangs, with an authoritative introduction by Darrell Schweitzer. No
other Holmes collection includes the books by Bangs, which was the
only use of Holmes that Doyle himself ever authorized, and Twain,
who was the most famous author other than Doyle to write a Sherlock
Holmes story. More than 1,000 pages of Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
Darrell Schweitzer, author of The Mask of the Sorcerer and editor
of Weird Tales collaborates with macabre artist-writer Jason Van
Hollander on a series of remarkable fantasies, variously grotesque,
horrific, ethereal, and darkly comic.
Here you will find the collective experience of three writers and
editors distilled into a complete guide to writing science fiction.
It contains separate chapters covering idea, plot, character,
background, Science, tragedy, and comedy. The twelve stories, each
a first sale by its author, illustrate the main points of the book.
A foreword by Isaac Asimov gives an overall look at the task of
becoming an SF writer, and an appendix by the editors explains
exactly how to prepare a manuscript for publication.
A baker's dozen of classic pulp stories, by a master of the genre!
"Satan's Daughter and Other Tales from the Pulps" include such rare
gems as the title story, "Scourge of the Silver Dragon," "Revolt of
the Damned," "Pit of Madness," "The Walking Dead," "Drink or Draw,"
and many more.
Ever since the first edition of Thomas Ligotti's 'Songs of a Dead
Dreamer' appeared in 1985, it was clear that here was an author of
extraordinary brilliance and originality. In following years there
has been a great deal of interest in the author and his works,
although, until now, articles about him have mostly been scattered
in obscure journals. Now, at last, here is a book about him, a
symposium of explorations and examinations of the Ligottian
universe by such leading critics as S.T. Joshi, Stefan
Dzimianowicz, Robert M. Price. With a complete, up-to-date
bibliography of Ligotti's work, two interviews with him, and even a
fascinating essay by Ligotti himself.
As vacation time approached, Dick and Doc had become as hard as
nails and as active as a couple of manus, which you will know, if
your education has not been neglected, is the ape-word for monkeys.
Then it was that the big surprise came in a letter that Dick
received from his mother. Tarzan of the Apes had invited them all
to visit him and spend two months on his great African estate! The
boys were so excited that they talked until three o'clock the next
morning and flunked in all their classes that day.
This volume collects H.P. Lovecraft's three major works on fantasy
fiction: "Supernatural Horror in Literature" -- his survey of the
weird and supernatural in fiction; and "Notes on Writing Weird
Fiction" and "Notes on Writing Interplanetary Fiction" -- his
how-to essays on crafting solid, aesthetically pleasing works in
those genres. An essential volume for scholars, writers, and those
interesting in the history and craftsmanship of the fantasy genre.
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Living with the Dead (Paperback)
Darrell Schweitzer; Introduction by Tim Lebbon; Illustrated by Jason Van Hollander
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R236
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Weirdbook #43 (Paperback)
Doug Draa; Darrell Schweitzer, Adrian Cole
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R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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"The House on the Borderland (1908) -- perhaps the greatest of all
Mr. Hodgson's works -- tells of a lonely and evilly regarded house
in Ireland which forms a focus for hideous otherworld forces and
sustains a siege by blasphemous hybrid anomalies from a hidden
abyss below. The wanderings of the Narrator's spirit through
limitless light-years of cosmic space and Kalpas of eternity, and
its witnessing of the solar system's final destruction, constitute
something almost unique in standard literature. And everywhere
there is manifest the author's power to suggest vague, ambushed
horrors in natural scenery." -- H.P. Lovecraft
"The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and
haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of
quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers)
that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With
its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of
hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this
book at times reaches enviable peaks of power." -- H.P. Lovecraft
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Weirdbook #38 (Paperback)
Michael Bracken, Darrell Schweitzer, Adrian Cole
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R354
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Weirdbook #36 (Paperback)
Douglas Draa; Darrell Schweitzer, L. F. Falconer
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R355
Discovery Miles 3 550
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